SUCCESSFUL POULTRY KEEPING 



closed will be damp and there will be moisture or frost on the 

 walls. You don't get any "house sweating" in fresh air or well 

 ventilated buildings. Cold houses are better than artificially 

 heated ones if well ventilated. The fowls in well-aired, cold 

 houses are not as easily affected by weather and temperature 



Following we give the answers to questions 27 and 28 

 mentioned in the fore part of this general introduction. A care- 

 ful study of these answers will prove profitable for the experi- 

 enced poultryman as well as the beginner. 



MOIST MASH RATIONS 



A. C. HAWKINS, Lancaster, Mass. 



BREEDER OF WHITE, BUFF AND BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS, 

 SILVER, BUFF AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 27. A mash early in the morning, warm in winter, 

 consisting of one-third com meal, one-third ground oats, one- 

 third wheat middlings. To this grain I add 10 per cent cooked 

 vegetables and 10 per cent animal food. At noon a Ught feed 

 of wheat in Utter and at night all they will eat of cracked com 

 and oats. Give free range. 



A. 28. Same as breeding stock. 



THOMAS F. RIGG, Iowa Falls, Iowa 



HOUDANS AND WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 27. Mixture of grains, com, oats, wheat, barley, millet 

 and buckwheat, all run through mill and cracked, not fine. Also 

 a mash once a day, at noon. Beef scraps kept in hoppers in 

 each breeding pen; charcoal, grit, oyster shells and bone given 

 in same way. 



A. 28. Same as 27, three times a day. 



B. S. HUME, French Village, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 27. Soaked oats in the morning or wheat scattered 

 m the straw to keep them busy; about twice a week give a mash 

 for noon meal and in cold weather feed corn at night. 



A. 28. About the same way but only twice a day. 



N. V. FOGG, Mt. Sterling, Ky. 



BREEDER OF SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 27. From October on through the winter I feed equal 

 parts of wheat, cracked com and oats, also other grains when 

 I can get them. This is fed morning and night in litter; at noon 

 I feed a mash composed of the following: 100 pounds of each, 

 wheat bran, com meal, ground oats, wheat middlings and beef 

 scrap. I also use a Uttle charcoal in the mash. Pure water, 

 grit and oyster shells are kept before the birds at all times.. In 

 the summer I do not feed as much com, but more wheat and 



GEO. A. BARROWS, Groton. N. Y. 



S. C. WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALIST 



A. -27. Moming: A light feed of four parts oats, one part 

 com and one part wheat. Noon: A mash mixed with milk and 

 made up of three parts good bran, one part middlings, one part 

 ground oats, one part com meal, one part oil meal and one part 

 beef scraps, all salted. Night: A good feed of mixed grain. 



In the summer I feed grass or clover and in the winter beets, 

 cabbage and green cut bone. I always furnish the hens fresh 

 water, also grit and sheUs. 



A. 28. I feed three times a day. Moming and night I 

 feed grain in litter and let the hens scratch for it and at noon I 

 feed mash in a trough. 



W. B. CANDEE, De Witt,'N. Y, 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



I 



A. 27. Am using two methods now, trying to determine 

 which I like. No. 1: Moming scratch feed, light, in litter; 

 noon, mash, wet, made of 100 pounds bran, 50 pounds mid- 

 dlings, SO pounds com meal; night, full feed, usually a mixture 

 of cracked com, oats, wheat and barley, with small amount of 

 buckwheat in cold weather. Three times a week the mash is 

 omitted and a cut bone feed given, cabbage or beets for green 

 stuff. Hopper contains grit, oyster shells and charcoal, before 

 them aU the time. 



No. 2: Same identically as No. 1, except the mash is mixed 

 dry and hoppers kept full where the birds can have access to it 

 all the time. 



H. H. FIKE, Libertyville, 111. 



WHITE WYANDOTTE SPECIALIST 



A. 28. Wheat, com or oats, moming and night; mash in 

 winter. Summer, all grain. Feed twice daily. 



J. L. JEFFERSON, Des Plaines, 111. 



WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS EXCLUSIVELY 



A. 27. Oats, wheat and mash, and in very cold weather 

 some com. 



A. 28. Same as breeding stock, oats and wheat in litter, 

 and mash at night, three times a day. 



G. W. BROWN, Camden, Arkansas 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES, BARRED ROCKS, INDIAN GAMES, 



BUFF COCHINS, LIGHT BRAHMAS, LEGHORNS, PIT GAMES, 



WILD AND BRONZE TURKEYS 



Ai 27. Our breeding stock is fed largely on com, wheat, 

 chops, oats and shorts, with green stuff and green bones, making 

 a mash in the moming with the above and some well cooked 

 vegetables, such as beets of turnips, and at night grain is fed, 

 with a small amount scattered in the scratching pens at noon. 



GUS. L. HAINLINE, Lamar, Missouri 



BREEDER OF WHITE WYANDOTTES 



A. 27. Oats and millet in litter in the moming; mash of 

 steeped alfalfa, bran, middlings with cracklings or beef scrap at 

 noon, and kaffir corn or Indian com at night; oyster shell and 

 grit, etc., in feed hoppers at all times, also a frequent feed of 

 turnips or other succulent roots. 



A. 28. Have good range; feed mash of alfalfa, bran, etc. 



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